Nominations for the Best American Series 2026

Earlier this month, the editor of Lowestoft Chronicle nominated a selection of our most memorable pieces for inclusion in several Best American Series anthologies. Each volume typically features a mere twenty or so works, handpicked from the hundreds—occasionally thousands—submitted every year. Fortunately, the days of losing an afternoon to the post office (queues snaking into the parking lot and sometimes your soul) are mostly gone, with online submissions now the norm. [Well, except for The Best American Essays, which has, somewhat mysteriously, reverted to snail mail this year—perhaps as an act of charity for the USPS.]

Best American Series 2025 Nominations

At the end of October, the editor of Lowestoft Chronicle nominated numerous pieces for inclusion in the various Best American Series anthologies. Twenty of so pieces are published in each anthology, and hundreds of submissions are sent each year. Mercifully, the submission process is now an online procedure sparing our editor from the dreaded post office line that inevitably extends to the parking lot.